Merchants of Virtue
Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Seiten
2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39005-8 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39005-8 (ISBN)
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Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
Divya Cherian is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Note on Transliterations and Citations
Introduction
1. Power
PART ONE. OTHER
2. Purity
3. Hierarchy
4. Discipline
PART TWO. SELF
5. Nonharm
6. Austerity
7. Chastity
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 color illustrations; 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-39005-9 / 0520390059 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-39005-8 / 9780520390058 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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